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MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism develops innovative design and planning solutions to address the most pressing urban problems.

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Project Spotlight 🔦 With support from a generous seed grant provided by @sidaracollaborative, a team from @senseable_city_lab is developing an AI-powered biodiversity monitoring system. The project uses vision recognition to identify and track insect species in real-time.When deployed, the system can help cities monitor insect populations, informing urban planning decisions and other strategies to protect urban biodiversity.This project has been supported by the @sidaracollaborative Urban Seed Fund at the LCAU. Established in 2018, the Fund invests in research that will create more sustainable and livable cities.Learn more about the ongoing project and next steps at the link in our bio.Team: @carlorattiassociati, @fduarte1970, titusvenverloo, Åse Håtveit, Simone Erba, Sabrina Tian, Deniz Aydemir, Mattia Consani, Kacper Ryske, Minyang Sun, Esther Saller by @mit_lcau

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Celebrating summer with the team and our visiting scholars! ☀️P.S. Our summer newsletter is out now — link in bio for info on upcoming exhibitions, AI projects, and more. by @mit_lcau

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📄 New paper out - “Making Intangible Heritage Visible: Evaluating Civic Methods for Defining and Collecting Place‑Based Heritage in Madinah”The paper, authored by @ashsicle, @___areti___, and @datasew, examines methods for participatory data collection with a particular focus on methods that can capture “nuanced understandings of intangible cultural heritage, particularly in a context where cultural identity is deeply intertwined with religion.”For planners and policymakers, the research suggests new ways to identify, document, and map the lived experiences, daily rituals, routines, and social practices of those who call a place home – intangible cultural heritage. In cities facing the pressures of globalization and development, the need to protect this heritage persists.https://www.mdpi.com/3921100Many thanks to the Madinah Region Development Authority and @gehlpeople , who supported this research and collaborated with our team. Additional thanks to @domesticdatastreamers for their role in designing the public installation included as one of the participatory methods.@MDPIOpenAccessPhotography by Albert Mørk, @gehlpeople by @mit_lcau

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🎓 What will the Class of 2026 take with them from MIT SA+P?As part of this year’s Commencement celebration, graduating students reflected on what they will carry forward — while faculty shared what they hope will stay with them long after leaving MIT.During the ceremony, Dean Hashim Sarkis described the class with a quality that surfaced again and again across the school: big-heartedness. Big-hearted in the way they approached each other, their work, and the world around them.And perhaps that is what this place hopes to cultivate most: “excellence in the service of humanity.”🎉 Congratulations to the MIT School of Architecture and Planning Class of 2026. @mitcommencement @mitsap @mitmedialab @mitarchitecture @mitdusp @actmit @mit_lcau @mitdesignacademy @mitdesignx @hashimsarkis @artsatmit by @mit_lcau

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It’s review season at MIT!Today, students from MIT’s "Interactive Data Visualization & Society" class showcased their projects about housing affordability in Greater Boston, informed by a collaboration with @mapcmetroboston.Students developed interactive dashboards, scrolling narrative stories, and transportation games about:- Speculation in the Boston housing market- Housing supply - how to build more, denser, lower-cost homes- Upzoning- Public transportation and housing density- Evictions and housing insecurity- Rental marketsWe were proud to cheer on LCAU research associate @ashsicle @mitdusp as she co-taught this course with Arvind Satyanarayan @miteecs! by @mit_lcau

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At 5pm today, the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (@mit_lcau) and MIT's Women's and Gender Studies Program (@mitwgs) bring together scholars and practitioners from Europe, Latin America, North Africa, and Asia to examine how planning and design that accounts for care work can reshape urban environments at every scale.Speakers include Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, Visiting Scholar at LCAU and UNESCO (@unesco) Chair on Gender, whose research on mobilities of care has earned international recognition; Daniela Chacón Arias, Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (@harvardgsd) and co-founder of TANDEM, who launched Quito's first system for reporting sexual harassment in public transit; Sarah Boufkiri, architect and project manager coordinating development of the new eco-city of Zenata in Morocco; Sarah Williams (@datasew), associate professor of Technology and Urban Planning at MIT and Director of the Civic Data Design Lab and LCAU; and Manduhai Buyandelger, anthropologist whose work examines gender, politics, and religion with a focus on Mongolia.🗓 April 28, 5pm🔗 RSVP and streaming link at the link in bio.@mit @mitsap @mitdusp by @mit_lcau

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Join us for this closing lecture with Jane Mah Hutton on Tuesday, April 21. @janemahhutton Jane Mah Hutton is a landscape architect, researcher, and Associate Professor at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Her work follows how building connects material supply chains, labor, and landscapes – from extraction and production to construction, demolition, and reuse. Her book, Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2019), traces five landscape materials that ended up in New York City over the past century. She is co-editor of JAE 79.1 Architecture Beyond Extraction, Landscript 5: Material Culture – Assembling and Disassembling Landscapes (Jovis, 2017), and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar, 2020). She also co-founded Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy. Her research has received major recognition, including the EDRA Great Places Book Award, the Olmsted Fellowship, and a fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Caroline Murphy joins the conversation as respondent. @mithtc @caro.m.w 🗓️ Tuesday, April 21, 12-1pm 📍 7-429, Long Lounge, MIT Building “GEO–MATTERS,” asks how designers might respond to the earth’s matter, forces and signals. The series is organized by Rania Ghosn @_rghosn Director of SMArchS Urbanism, and co-hosted with the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) @mit_lcau @mitarchitecture @mitsap@waterloo_architecture by @mit_lcau

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This semester, we’re excited to welcome two Global MIT At-Risk Fellows to our community. Learn more about their work at tomorrow’s (04/07) Visiting Scholar Lightning Talks (starting at 5:30pm in Bartos Theater). ⚡ The event is free and open to the public. Dr. Andriy Popov is a professor in land management and cadaster at Dmytro Motornyi Tavria State Agrotechnological University and holds a PhD in economics. His research addresses land tenure systems, land consolidation, cadastral infrastructure, and sustainable spatial planning, with a focus on rural development and post-conflict reconstruction. He has an extensive publication record in peer-reviewed international journals and has contributed to international research and policy-oriented projects supported by FAO, DAAD, and EU programs.Dr. Andrii Galkin is a transport and logistics engineer and senior researcher with 16+ years of expertise, combining a PhD in transport systems with hands-on data science and machine learning for policy decision-making. Currently a professor at O.M. Beketov National University of Urban Economy in Kharkiv, he turns complex mobility and logistics problems into actionable models, from predictive analytics to human-centric research. His work is keenly focused on transport accessibility, poverty, equity, and justice in protracted armed conflict, translating data into resilience and recovery strategies that decision-makers can actually use. by @mit_lcau

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Dr. Mae-ling Lokko joins us for a lecture on Thursday, April 9. @maelokko Lokko is an architectural scientist, designer, educator and artist from Ghana and the Philippines whose work broadly explores the design of value systems around biobased materials. Her work has been exhibited globally, including at the 19th Architecture Venice Biennale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Nobel Prize Museum, Stockholm; Triennale Milano, the Sonsbeek Biennial and at the Museum of the Future, Dubai. Lokko is an Assistant Professor at Yale University’s School of Architecture, Assistant Director at Yale’s Center for Ecosystems in Architecture and the founder of Willow Technologies Ltd, in Accra, Ghana. Dr. Caitlin Mueller joins the conversation as respondent. Mueller is Associate Professor at MIT Architecture, where she directs the Building Technology Program and leads the Digital Structures research group (@digitalstructures). In addition, she serves as Associate Director of the MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium, advancing interdisciplinary partnerships for decarbonization and sustainability education; and co-leads ODDS & MODS, with research spanning computational design, digital fabrication, interdisciplinary collaboration, material circularity, and the reuse of standardized and irregular materials in architecture. 🗓️ Thursday, April 9, 12-1pm📍 7-429, Long Lounge, MIT Building“GEO–MATTERS,” asks how designers might respond to the earth’s matter, forces and signals.The series is organized by Rania Ghosn @_rghosn Director of SMArchS Urbanism, and co-hosted with the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) @mit_lcau @mitarchitecture @mitsap by @mit_lcau

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Join us for The Fluvial City, Manaus, a workshop exploring housing and sanitation in the urbanizing Amazon.Bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students from Brazil and MIT, the workshop focuses on real conditions and design responses in Manaus, the largest city in the Amazon. The program includes perspectives on Indigenous culture and the built environment, as well as discussions on the role of architecture and planning in rapidly changing urban contexts.The workshop features Vanda Witoto and Washington Fajardo, with faculty from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and partner institutions in Brazil, including the Federal University of Amazonas and the University of São Paulo.Organized with support from the Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism and MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, the event highlights ongoing collaboration across SA+P on climate, infrastructure, and urban futures.📍 MIT Building 7 (Long Lounge)🗓 April 6, 9:00 am–12:30 pm🔗 Registration at the link in bioAlso on view: an exhibition of student work presented at COP30 in Belém, exploring housing and sanitation across residential typologies in Manaus (Building 9 lobby, April 6–11). FACULTY PARTNERS— Professor Marcos Cereto of the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM), Brazil and the Núcleo de Arquitetura Moderna na Amazônia (NAMA)— Professor Alexandre Delijaicov (virtually) of the University of São Paulo (USP)— Professor Angelo Bucci of MIT - Architecture— Professor Gabriella Carolini of MIT - Department of Urban Studies and Planning— with support from Professor Marcelo Coehlo (MIT - Architecture) and Gabriela Bila (MIT Media Lab)STUDENT PARTNERS— UFAM: Alex Martins, Ângelo Pontes, Beatriz Atem, Ester Komorowski, Eliana Rego, Giovanna Assis, Julia Mendes, Juliana Cambeiro (in-person), Maria Eduarda Cohen, Nathyele de Souza Dias, Isabela Cavalcante— USP: Ana Julia Bettio Pereira (virtual), Lucas Karmann, Mariana Peruchi— MIT: Shreya Bansal, Aashna Daga, Valeria Duenas, Marine Gapihan, Anushka Maqbool, Reishan McIntosh, Jacob Payne, Kaede Polkinghorne by @mit_lcau

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Next up in our visiting scholar series: Inés Sánchez de Madariaga, visiting from @somosupm.We are so thrilled the Inés will be presenting at our Visiting Scholar Lightning Talks on 04/07! The event and reception are free and open to the public. More info at the 🔗 in our bio.Next week, Inés will also present her work on care infrastructure as part of the “Domestic Revolutions and Feminist Cities” Symposium at Yale (04/09 and 04/10). Be sure to register!About Inés: Inés is UNESCO Chair on Gender, Professor of Urban Planning at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, and Chair of the Advisory Group on Gender Issues to the Executive Director of UN-Habitat. She is a leading international expert on gender in transportation, urban planning and architecture with extensive experience spanning public office, policy, practice, and research. A Fulbright grantee and Real Colegio Complutense Fellow, she has been Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, MIT, UCLA, the Bauhaus-Weimar, LSE, and Columbia University. She has held public office in the Spanish Government as Director of the Women and Science Unit, Director General for Architecture, advisor to the Ministers of Housing and of Science and Innovation, and member of the Board of Directors of the Spanish Public Housing Corporation. by @mit_lcau

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A few weeks ago, we were lucky to be joined by @jeanne_gang of @studiogang as part of the Spring 2026 MIT Architecture Lecture Series.The lecture was presented with the Architecture and Urbanism Group and in collaboration with the LCAU.📺 The recording has now been posted online (link in bio). @mitarchitecture @mitsap by @mit_lcau

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